> On 10/4/2017 8:45 PM, Kees Cook wrote:> > In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to> > all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()> > to pass the timer pointer explicitly. A pointer from nesadapter back to> > nesdev was added.> > > > Cc: Faisal Latif <faisal.latif@intel.com>> > Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>> > Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>> > Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>> > Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>> > ---> > This requires commit 686fef928bba ("timer: Prepare to change timer> > callback argument type") in v4.14-rc3, but should be otherwise> > stand-alone.> > What is your intention with this, and the other RDMA related, patches?> Is it your intention that I should pick these up or is someone else> supposed to (you sent it to linux-kernel and only Cc:ed linux-rdma)?> Also, are you intending this to go into -rc? If so, why is it dependent> on a patch that didn't land until -rc3?

That's 4.15 material and should preferrably be picked up by the relevantmaintainers. The 4.14-rc3 reference is there just in case a maintainer treeis based on pre 4.14-rc3, so applying the patch would break the build.